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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The better comparator than Mundo Verde or LAMB would be Tyler on the Hill with few Spanish speakers at entry.[/quote]

Sort of. Tyler has long done outreach to Latinos around the Hill to try to draw them in. They've had an unofficial Spanish dominant lottery for years, an official one for two years, and at least one native speaking admin.

You don't have to look as far as Cal to find higher standards and better outputs for spoken Chinese than at YY. Students in the Potomac and College Gardens ES immersion programs, and the Herbert Hoover MS partial immersion program, in MoCo are expected to speak pretty well.  Their admins and Chinese teachers are mostly ABCs with MD teaching certifications who speak a regional dialect and Mandarin. The programs offer dialect transition support to native speakers. Their admins do outreach in the local dialect-speaking communities and their FARMs students qualify for special support (after-school tutoring, summer camps, free Mandarin DVDs etc.). The strongest MoCo Chinese immersion students normally go on to Higher Level IBD Chinese studies at Richard Montgomery, Bethesda Chevy Chase or Rockville high schools.[/quote]

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